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Nadir E. Bharucha
Researcher at Bombay Hospital, Indore
Publications - 36
Citations - 1484
Nadir E. Bharucha is an academic researcher from Bombay Hospital, Indore. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Epilepsy. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 36 publications receiving 1430 citations.
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The Epidemiology of the Epilepsies: Future Directions
Nadir E. Bharucha,Jwas Sander,S AlDeeb,Arturo Carpio,J Cereghino,R Elwes,Lars Forsgren,A Hauser,P. Jallon,J G Fernandes,H Rwiza,Matti Sillanpää,E.H. Reynolds,Peter Wolf,Jerome Engel +14 more
TL;DR: This work addresses some of the issues in the interpretation of the available data and highlights areas in which future epidemiological research is required.
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Hypertension in the Parsi community of Bombay: a study on prevalence, awareness and compliance to treatment.
TL;DR: This study shows that prevalence of HT in the Parsi community is high and nearly half are unaware of their hypertensive status, which highlights the need for regular screening coupled with educational programs to detect and optimally treatHT in the community.
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Prevalence of Parkinson's disease in the Parsi community of Bombay, India.
TL;DR: A door-to-door survey was carried out to screen a community of 14010 people (Parsis living in colonies in Bombay, India) for possible neurologic diseases and found that age-specific prevalence ratios increased consistently with age and age-adjusted prevalence ratios were slightly higher for men.
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Epilepsy in the Tropics: I. Epidemiology, Socioeconomic Risk Factors, and Etiology
P R M De Bittencourt,B Adamolekum,Nadir E. Bharucha,Arturo Carpio,O H Cossio,M A Danesi,Michel Dumas,H Meinardi,A Ordinario,N Senanayake,R Shakir,J Sotelo +11 more
TL;DR: The mandate of the Commission on Tropical Diseases of the International League Against Epilepsy is to advise the ILAE Executive Committee with respect to the various factors that contribute to the high frequency of epilepsy in the tropics.
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Prevalence of epilepsy in the Parsi community of Bombay.
TL;DR: A door‐to‐door survey was carried out to screen a community of 14,010 people (Parsis living in colonies in Bombay, India) for possible neurologic diseases, finding that cerebral palsy and mental retardation were the most frequently associated conditions.